4/20 19:30
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
Antheil: Jazz Symphony
Bernstein: Serenade (After Plato's Symposium)
I. Phaedrus: Pausanias -- lento & allegro
II. Aristophanes -- allegretto
III. Eryximachus, the doctor -- presto
IV. Agathon -- adagio
V. Socrates: Alcibiades -- molto tenuto & allegro molto vivace
Copland: Symphony No. 3 (incorporating Fanfare for the Common Man)
Kalmar talks in front of each half, introducing the musical pieces with some humor.
Antheil is a mismatch of more or less harmonic pieces. Avant-garde to my ears, even though it's about 80 years old. I dozed off during Bernstein's Serenade: too tired.
